Quoting Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Am Dienstag, 10. Februar 2004 07:56 schrieb ext Kent Jantz: > > > I installed a barebones Gentoo with a 2.6 kernel and evms on 10GB of my > > first hard drive. I then created the standard boot, swap, and root > > partitions on my main(second) hard drive. After that I created my evms > > volumes(/home, /usr, and /var partitions) on my main hard drive. I > > finished intalling Gentoo which included listing my drives in fstab as > > /dev/evms/hdx(for the root, boot, and swap partitions) and > Why partitions for / and swap? Those can both be EVMS volumes. I allways > create two primary partitions: the first of about 50M for /boot, the second > on the rest of the hd. In this second partition I create EVMS volumes for > everything else.
Yes, I realize I could have made my whole linux install be EVMS volumes, I even tried to do that but I couldn't get it to work(had major problems with initrd on bootup) and besides I have 100MB for my boot partition and 2.5GB for my root partition, it's very unlikely I will run out of space with those 2 partitions. My swap is 512MB(I have 768MB of Ram) so I'm not to worried about swap either. On the other hand if you have a howto I can follow(I already tried the EVMS Sourceforge site and a couple of postings on the forum) maybe I'll try again. > > > /dev/evms/xxxlv(for the /usr, /var, and /home partitions). I then try to > > boot up, evms loads ok(right after '* Calculating module dependencies') > > but later on in the process when it is '* Mounting local filesystems' it > > complains that it can't find my evms volumes and of course the rest of > > the bootup is a mess because there are no /usr, /var, and /home > > partitions mounted. I saw that there was a new experimental 2.6 LiveCD > > with basic evms support, would I have better luck with that? > Do you call evms_activate when booting (did you "rc-update add evms boot")? > > AFAIK all x86 1.4 LiveCDs have EVMS support (EVMS1, though). This is > completely sufficient for installation of an Everything-on-EVMS > (except /boot) system. You can upgrate to EVMS2 later w/o problems. > > HTH... > > Dirk > -- > Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)151 1513 6954 > Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 > Cap Gemini Ernst & Young| Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hambornerstraße 55 | Web: http://www.cgey.com > D-40472 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 > GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net > Thanks, Kent -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
